{"id":1024,"date":"2019-10-06T17:26:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T17:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2019-10-06T17:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T17:30:04","slug":"the-first-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"The First of Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nibweb member Stewart Ross has a wonderful book just out \u2013 in good time for Christmas.\u00a0Publisher Michael O&#8217;Mara describes it\u00a0as: \u2018A lively and highly<strong> r<\/strong>eadable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global coverage of\u00a0<strong><i>The First of Everything<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0ranges from the Big Bang to driverless cars &#8230;This fascinating book takes in the full sweep of human development and ingenuity over twelve millennia\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This is the book\u00a0for anyone who wants to know about how\u00a0the world we live in today\u00a0came about \u2013 it covers everything from \u00a0the Big Bang Theory and the start of the universe\u00a0to the development of \u00a0homo sapiens; health and medicine, transport, science and engineering, peace and war, and culture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/9781789290639.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1025\" src=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/9781789290639-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"9781789290639\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/9781789290639-198x300.jpg 198w, http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/9781789290639.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The First of Everything<\/em> by Stewart Ross<br \/>\nPublished by Michael O&#8217;Mara<br \/>\nISBN\u00a09781789290622<br \/>\n\u00a312.99 (hardback)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nibweb member Stewart Ross has a wonderful book just out \u2013 in good time for Christmas.\u00a0Publisher Michael O&#8217;Mara describes it\u00a0as: \u2018A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}